Individual Details
Jonas Bemis
(25 Mar 1737 - 7 May 1790)
Events
| Birth | 25 Mar 1737 | Spencer, Worcester, Massachusetts |  | ||
| Military | 1756 | a soldier in the French and Indian War | | ||
| Marriage | 5 Jan 1758 | Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts - Dorothy "Dolly" Wood | | ||
| Military | 1775 | during the Revolutionary War, he was a Lieutenant in Captain John Wolcott's Company of Rangers | | ||
| Occupation | farmer - Spencer, Worcester, Massachusetts | | |||
| Description | very corpulent, weighing more than 400 lbs. | | |||
| Death | 7 May 1790 | Spencer, Worcester, Massachusetts | | ||
| Burial | Old Spencer Cemetery, Spencer, Worcester, Massachusetts |
Families
| Spouse | Dorothy "Dolly" Wood (1733 - 1814) |
| Child | Obadiah Bemis (1758 - 1781) |
| Child | Jonas Bemis (1760 - 1846) |
| Child | Israel Bemis (1762 - ) |
| Child | Asa Bemis (1764 - ) |
| Child | Dolly Bemis (1766 - 1852) |
| Child | Phebe Bemis (1768 - 1804) |
| Child | Sarah Bemis (1769 - ) |
| Child | Elijah Bemis (1772 - 1798) |
| Child | Molly Bemis (1774 - ) |
| Child | Hannah Bemis (1779 - ) |
| Father | Samuel Bemis (1690 - 1776) |
| Mother | Sarah Barnard (1693 - 1756) |
| Sibling | Samuel Bemis (1716 - 1793) |
| Sibling | Edmund Bemis (1720 - 1810) |
| Sibling | William Bemis (1722 - 1801) |
| Sibling | Nathaniel Bemis (1725 - 1784) |
| Sibling | Sarah Bemis (1727 - ) |
| Sibling | Joshua Bemis (1729 - 1789) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth Bemis (1732 - 1802) |
Endnotes
1. Thomas Waln-Morgan Draper, The Bemis History and Genealogy: Being an Account, In Greater Part of the Descendants of Joseph Bemis of Watertown, Mass. (San Francisco, California: The Stanley-Taylor Company, 1900; reprint, N.p.: Higginson Book Company, n.d.), 124.
2. Charles L. Newhall, The Record of My Ancestry (Southbridge, Massachusetts: Herald Power Print, 1899), 67; digital image, Google, Google Books (https://books.google.com/ : accessed 23 February 2020.
3. Thomas Waln-Morgan Draper, The Bemis History and Genealogy: Being an Account, In Greater Part of the Descendants of Joseph Bemis of Watertown, Mass. (San Francisco, California: The Stanley-Taylor Company, 1900; reprint, N.p.: Higginson Book Company, n.d.), 173.
4. James Draper, History of Spencer, Massachusetts, From its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1860: Including a Brief Sketch of Leicester, to the Year 1753 (Worcester, Massachusetts: Henry J. Howland, Printer, n.d.), 171.
5. James Draper, History of Spencer, Massachusetts, From its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1860: Including a Brief Sketch of Leicester, to the Year 1753 (Worcester, Massachusetts: Henry J. Howland, Printer, n.d.), 171.
6. Charles L. Newhall, The Record of My Ancestry (Southbridge, Massachusetts: Herald Power Print, 1899), 67; digital image, Google, Google Books (https://books.google.com/ : accessed 23 February 2020.
7. Thomas Waln-Morgan Draper, The Bemis History and Genealogy: Being an Account, In Greater Part of the Descendants of Joseph Bemis of Watertown, Mass. (San Francisco, California: The Stanley-Taylor Company, 1900; reprint, N.p.: Higginson Book Company, n.d.), 173.
8. James Draper, History of Spencer, Massachusetts, From its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1860: Including a Brief Sketch of Leicester, to the Year 1753 (Worcester, Massachusetts: Henry J. Howland, Printer, n.d.), 171.
9. Thomas Waln-Morgan Draper, The Bemis History and Genealogy: Being an Account, In Greater Part of the Descendants of Joseph Bemis of Watertown, Mass. (San Francisco, California: The Stanley-Taylor Company, 1900; reprint, N.p.: Higginson Book Company, n.d.), 173.
10. Thomas Waln-Morgan Draper, The Bemis History and Genealogy: Being an Account, In Greater Part of the Descendants of Joseph Bemis of Watertown, Mass. (San Francisco, California: The Stanley-Taylor Company, 1900; reprint, N.p.: Higginson Book Company, n.d.), 173.
11. James Draper, History of Spencer, Massachusetts, From its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1860: Including a Brief Sketch of Leicester, to the Year 1753 (Worcester, Massachusetts: Henry J. Howland, Printer, n.d.), 171.
12. Thomas Waln-Morgan Draper, The Bemis History and Genealogy: Being an Account, In Greater Part of the Descendants of Joseph Bemis of Watertown, Mass. (San Francisco, California: The Stanley-Taylor Company, 1900; reprint, N.p.: Higginson Book Company, n.d.), 124.
13. Systematic History Fund, Vital Records of Spencer, Massachusetts, To the end of the year 1849 (Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, Trustee of the Fund, 1909), 231.
14. James Draper, History of Spencer, Massachusetts, From its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1860: Including a Brief Sketch of Leicester, to the Year 1753 (Worcester, Massachusetts: Henry J. Howland, Printer, n.d.), 171.
15. Charles L. Newhall, The Record of My Ancestry (Southbridge, Massachusetts: Herald Power Print, 1899), 67; digital image, Google, Google Books (https://books.google.com/ : accessed 23 February 2020.